WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #16-19 (1974)

Werewolf just left Transylvania, and I don’t know exactly where that is, but according to this comic it is 1,500 kilometers away from Paris.  So he’s in Europe.  Time to meet the Hunchback, and the credits give thanks to Victor Hugo.

And the bright lights of the airport prevent Jack from seeing the full moon, so he transforms.  Then he winds up at the cathedral and kills the hunchback.  Technically he doesn’t mean to–he knocks him off the belltower and fails to save him from falling–but dead is dead.

Issue #16 is technically a self-contained story, but issue #17 picks up right where it left off–with Parisians having seen Werewolf kill hunchback, and them pursuing him.  Topaz uses her mental powers to calm him down.

Then they get on a plane and go home to Los Angeles for a multi-issue arc against a villain named Baron Thunder.

He’s a one-off villain. The more important part of these issues is…

The first black werewolf!  His name is Raymond Coker, and he lives in an apartment in the same building as Jack Russell.

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